September 09, 2010

The Virginia Quarterly Review: Update

From today's Washington Post:<<<Virginia Quarterly Review staffer died by his own hand, but he reached out first

By Daniel de Vise

Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 9, 2010

The Charlottesville offices of the Virginia Quarterly Review are dark.
The locks have been changed. Most of the staff have resigned or taken
leave. There were two competing drafts of the fall issue, one assembled
by the journal's editor, the other by members of his estranged staff.
The winter issue has been canceled.

There are two divergent accounts, as well, of why the managing editor of
the University of Virginia's esteemed literary journal walked to a
lonely coal tower on a July morning and shot himself in the head.>>>Click here for more.

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From today's Washington Post:<<<Virginia Quarterly Review staffer died by his own hand, but he reached out first

By Daniel de Vise

Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 9, 2010

The Charlottesville offices of the Virginia Quarterly Review are dark.
The locks have been changed. Most of the staff have resigned or taken
leave. There were two competing drafts of the fall issue, one assembled
by the journal's editor, the other by members of his estranged staff.
The winter issue has been canceled.

There are two divergent accounts, as well, of why the managing editor of
the University of Virginia's esteemed literary journal walked to a
lonely coal tower on a July morning and shot himself in the head.>>>Click here for more.